Lunch will be served at noon in the Fellowship Hall. The organ recital will follow in the sanctuary. Tickets for lunch and the concert are $20 per person or $30 for two, payable by cash or credit at the door. Tickets may also be purchased online (at a small premium) at https://www.catalinamethodist.org/organ-festival/

About The Performer, Dr. Ilona Kubiaczyk-Adler

Dr. Ilona Kubiaczyk-Adler
Director of Ministries in Music and Arts/Organist

Ilona Kubiaczyk-Adler (ee-LOH-nuh koo-BYAH-chik AD-ler) joined Pinnacle as Associate Director of Ministries in Music and Arts/Organist in January 2019. In January 2022 she was named Director of Ministries in Music and Arts.

A native of Poland, Ilona has been in the Valley for the past ten years. In addition to being a concertizing organist, Ilona was the Director of Music Ministries at the Episcopal Church of the Nativity, and most recently the Associate Director of Music at All Saints’ Episcopal Church.

She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Arizona State University where she was a summa cum laude graduate and student of Dr. Kimberly Marshall. She received her Master of Music degree from Conservatorium van Amsterdam in the Netherlands; there she studied with Jacques van Oortmerssen on historical pipe organs which have inspired Ralph Richards and Bruce Fowkes’ masterful organ building.

Ilona has given concerts in Europe and both Americas as a soloist, chamber musician, and in duo with her husband, composer, and performer, Jacob Adler. In her free time, she enjoys yoga, hiking, and biking, especially with Jacob and their two sons: Leo and Julian.

(Source: https://www.pinnaclepres.org/staff/dr-ilona-kubiaczyk-adler

This meeting – our first event of the new season in our 87th year will be an Opening Service of Worship – is being hosted by Stephen Keyl.

At the completion of the Opening Service & Officer Installation:

• There will be a brief membership meeting
• Followed by a catered dinner

Make sure to mark your calendar and plan to attend this important meeting as it is an exceptional opportunity to get to know — or become reacquainted with — your fellow SAAGO Chapter members over a delicious dinner prepared and catered by Andy Bruno Catering; likewise, it is the perfect opportunity to share ideas for the Chapter as well as your musical needs.

Spouses and partners are welcome, as are other potential chapter members! Be sure to join us for this first meeting of the new season of SAGGO’s 87th year!

PLEASE NOTE: Information regarding reservations required; tickets (if applicable); dinner menu; etc., will be announced shortly.

This free program of meditative and peaceful music will be presented by Lynn Moser (piano and organ), Christine Harper (flute), Korby Myrick (mezzo-soprano), soloists from the Trinity Choir, and handbell players from the Trinity Ringers.

Lynn will be playing the Chapel’s self-contained, 2/8, chapel organ built in 1983 by David Harris. The instrument is shown in the pictures which follow.

Since 2008, when the present Möller pipe organ was installed, St. Andrew’s has hosted an annual Hymnfest.  Member Lars Andersen has been the guest organist for this event since its beginning.  The pipe organ was manufactured by the M.P. Möller organ company of Hagerstown in 1949, originally installed in Racine, Wisconsin and dismantled, moved, and installed at St. Andrew’s in the fall of 2018. 3 manuals, 3 divisions, 30 ranks, drawknob console recently updated with new Peterson Console Controller.

The afternoon features a mass combined choir from churches all around Sierra Vista, a high school choir, and of course, lots of hymns sung by the congregation.

A wonderful orchestral instrument in amazing Catholic acoustics.

Many thanks to Msgr. Greg Adolf and the congregation of St. Andrew’s for hosting this annual event.

Projecting “a warmly musical personality,” Julia Brown’s many recordings on Naxos hail her as an “unquestionably first-class artist and superb technician… exceptionally sensitive.” Her organ and harpsichord recordings of W. F. Bach, J. S. Bach, Buxtehude, and Scheidemann have gained high critical acclaim. In demand as a historical keyboardist and collaborative artist, Brown’s performances include chamber music, orchestral repertoire, and continuo playing in addition to solo recitals. Brown has appeared in concert in North and South America and in Europe, having performed at the Oregon Bach Festival, Astoria Music Festival, Chico Bach Festival, American Guild of Organists Regional and National Conventions, Organ Historical Society Conventions, Latin American Organist Conventions, and National Public Radio. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brown studied piano, harpsichord and organ in her native Brazil before receiving her MM and DMA from Northwestern University as a student of Wolfgang Rübsam. She has served as president of ABO (Brazilian Association of Organists) and has served in various capacities on AGO chapter boards in Pennsylvania, Oregon and Michigan. She currently works as Director of Music and Organist at Mayflower Congregational Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan.